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* The small, flying camera robots in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' often end up blinding you.

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* In the movie studio stage of the ''VideoGame/ScottPilgrim'' game, one of the generic {{mooks}} attacks with a flash camera.

* When her home is plunged into darkness, Sarah from ''Film/{{Inside}}'' uses the flashes emitted by her camera to navigate the house, and find the wounded killer.

* Simon Bar Sinister of WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}} created a special camera in "Simon Says" (his first-ever appearance in the show), that, when it hits the victim, turns said victims into photographs, and he intended to do so to our hero and Sweet Polly and then kill them both by tearing up their photographs. Underdog defeated Simon by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard employing a mirror to make the ray bounce back towards him]]. The effects are reversible by switching the lens in the opposite direction.

* Mr. Camera is a minor ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' villain who uses photography-based gadgets in committing his crimes.

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* ''Film/{{Quarantine}}'' includes a scene where a character uses the POV camera to beat up a zombie lens-first.

* During a ''Film/JamesBond'' {{parody}} episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.

* When ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' went to Itchy & Scratchy Land and the robots went berserk, flashes from cameras were both their BerserkButton "on" switch and "off" switch.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'', you can find a camera that causes a BlindingCameraFlash in a box in front of you, stunning and disorienting most enemies (including the otherwise invincible and infallible [[StalkedByTheBell Ghost,]] if only for a brief moment) and outright ''killing'' most undead enemies, including skeletons and vampires.

* In ''Film/PeepingTom'', Mark murders his victims with a retractable knife hidden in the leg of his camera trip: allowing him to them at the moment he kills them.

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* Mr. Camera is a minor Franchise/{{Batman}} villain who uses photography-based gadgets in committing his crimes.

* In the horror film ''Film/DontBeAfraidOfTheDark'' in 2011, Sally was given a Polaroid SX70 OneStep camera by Kim. During the dinner party hosted by her father, she went to photograph proof of the Fairy Fold monsters. However, she becomes locked up in the library and has to keep the Fairy Fold away from her with the flashes until her father finds a way in.

* The murderers in the Australian slasher film ''Scare Campaign'' use a variety of weaponized cameras to bludgeon, stab, garrote, and ''chainsaw'' their victims.

* In Film/Ruby, the title character is given a home movie camera with a gun hidden inside.
--> '''Vitali:''' It takes nine-millimeter film.

* Sometimes, the camera really ''does'' steal souls. See (repeatedly) ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'', most notably the ''Say Cheese and Die!'' books.

* In Charles Stross' ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', the CCTV cameras ubiquitous across England can be turned into "look-to-kill" weapons, operating on the same principle as [[TakenForGranite basilisks, gorgons, etc]]. It says something about how bad [[ApocalypseHow a full-scale invasion]] by {{Eldritch Abomination}}s is expected to be that killing (by petrifying and/or cooking) most of Britain's population is considered ''[[GodzillaThreshold the better option]].''

* ''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker''
** "Bad Medicine". When Kolchak takes pictures of a diablero, it flees to protect its eyes from the bright light from the camera's flashbulb.
** Subverted in "They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...". Kolchak thinks the monster is adversely affected by the light from his camera's flash bulb. It actually turns out to be vulnerable to the sound the camera's recharger makes after the flash.

-->'''Carter''': I pretend I'm taking a picture, but inside the camera, I've got a [[{{BFG}} thirty-seven millimeter cannon]]...sawed off.
-->'''Newkirk''': You don't think that's a bit messy?
* The "KGB vs. CIA" episode of ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' featured the KGB using a camera that was also a gun. It was intended for assassinations, which was why it only held [[OneBulletLeft a single .22 caliber bullet.]]
* ''Series/BurnNotice'': Michael Westen once cracked open a disposable camera and put the case around a taser.

* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', a camera can be used to blind foes.
* The small, flying camera robots in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' often end up blinding you.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' one of Edgar's tools is a camera with a damaging flash.
* In ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' there's a level where you play as a journalist in a makeshift World War I hospital. You start the level with a camera and some flash powder which you can use to stun enemies (which is useful, considering some of them can easily dodge the puny guns you're given).

* There's at least one ''TinTin'' videogame adaptation where you can use the camera to scare away birds/bats and stun both men and beasts alike, allowing you to get close enough to knock them out cold.
* Although it works ''slightly'' different in both games, [[VideoGame/DeadRising Frank West]] uses a camera as one of his special moves in both ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'' and ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Deceit}}'', cameras are used that way against the Infected when they are transformed. What's more, they are put there specifically for this purpose by a mysterious man hosting a DeadlyGame as a way for the innocents to defend themselves against the Infected.

* When ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' went to Itchy & Scratchy Land and the robots went berserk, flashes from cameras were both their BerserkButton "on" switch and "off" switch.

* WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest used this to defeat the Molemen in one episode.
* During a ''Film/JamesBond'' {{parody}} episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.
* During one episode of WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko. Xana was using rats that were extremely sensitive to light. Cue everyone using the cameras flashbulbs to get the rats to scatter along with some incredibly painful "say cheese!" and "smile!" puns.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' episode "Dear Diary," Dr. Goosewing loads a camera with a stake to fire at Duckula. He gains entrance to the castle disguised as a photographer, but he gets revealed when the gunpowder meant to propel the stake blows up in his face.

When the camera's offensive properties go beyond just the flash or a simple bludgeon, it's likely a MagicalCamera.

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* ''Anime/CuteyHoney'' has Honey's photographer from bludgeon a few Panther Claw goons with her camera in the first anime opening.